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Join the Early Career Faculty Forum Series to develop usable products, refine teaching skills, and navigate available resources at Missouri S&T. Topics range from teaching success to research funding opportunities.
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Charting Your Path to Success August 21, 2019
Early Career Faculty Forum Series • Meets every other Wednesday from 4 – 5PM • All pre-tenure/pre-promotion faculty invited! • Welcome! https://www.askideas.com/keep-calm-its-already-wednesday/
CAFE aims to: • Enable and support faculty excellence at all stages of career • Maintain balance among the teaching, research, and service missions of Missouri S&T • Establish and sustain CAFE as the foremost faculty development unit on campus • CAFE Objectives
Early career faculty who regularly attend the forums will be able to: • Develop usable products at sessions that can be applied to promote student and faculty success • Navigate the Missouri S&T culture and available resources, and network with colleagues • Refine skills for teaching and learning • Assemble an effective promotion and tenure dossier • Early Career Faculty Forum Objectives
Get to know new faculty colleagues (introductions) • Provide overview of forum topics for the year • Identify questions and areas of interest to address in future forums • Discuss the survey results • Week 1: August 21 • Charting Your Path to Success Source: http://www.c3teachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/path.jpg
Explore what it means to prepare, communicate, and show you care as a teacher • Discuss 7 questions on CET evaluations • Talk about teaching awards • Learn about Ten Steps to Teaching Success program • Week 2: September 4th • Getting Started with Teaching Source: https://it.wisc.edu/news/2-ways-rethink-teaching-fall/
Overview many faces of advising • Discuss basics of undergraduate advising: what do to and say • Hands on tutorial about how to use the S&T advising software • Week 3: September 18th • Undergraduate Advising 101 Source: missourisandt.photoshelter.com
Discuss strategies for identifying research sponsors • Discuss strategies for finding funding opportunities • Week 4: October 2nd • Identifying Research Sponsors & Finding Funding Week 4: October 2 Classroom Challenges and Mid-Course Corrections • Discuss effective ways to engage students • Learn about support for students in distress • Find out benefits of mid-semester feedback
Week 5: October 16 Scholarship of Teaching and Learning • Discuss purpose and value of SoTL • Learn about the support for conducting SoTL at S&T • Week 5: October 16th • Pre-Award Activities Source: https://twitter.com/publichousebeer
Discuss how to get the most out of classroom technologies to enhance student learning • Learn about lecture capture resources • Discuss ways to maximize the use of classroom technologies • Week 6: October 30 • CLASSROOM TECHNOLOGIES
Learn about the funding opportunities for travel for early career faculty • Hear about other funding opportunities available through CAFE • Week 7: November 13 • CAFE Grant Opportunities
Early career faculty will choose topics of interest to discuss CAFE Programs: https://cafe.mst.edu/ • Week 8: December 4 • TBD
What do you hope to get out of the forum series? • Your goals, questions and concerns ??
September 3rd: Dr. Costas Tsatsoulis, Vice Chancellor of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies, will provide an overview of activities of the Office of Sponsored Research and how his office can help you to secure funding for your research. At noon in 120 Fulton RSVPs (casb@mst.edu) are required • RESEARCH MENTORING LUNCH for CASB
October 1st: Mr. Keith Strassner, Assistant Vice Provost for Technology and Business Development, will cover how faculty can work with industrial partners and provide advice on best practices for these activities. At noon in 120 Fulton RSVPs (casb@mst.edu) are required • RESEARCH MENTORING LUNCH for CASB
November 5th: Dr. Susan Renoe, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research, Extension & Engagement at the University of Missouri, and Dr. Sara Vassmer, Director of The Connector, are members of ARIS (Advancing Research Impact in Society) and the NABI (National Alliance for Broader Impacts). They work with faculty across all four UM campuses on the broader impacts of their research. At noon in 120 Fulton RSVPs (casb@mst.edu) are required • RESEARCH MENTORING LUNCH for CASB
December 3rd: Ms. Susan Hernandez, grants manager at the Saint Louis Science Center, will discuss possible opportunities to collaborate on federal grants with the Science Center. At noon in 120 Fulton RSVPs (casb@mst.edu) are required • RESEARCH MENTORING LUNCH for CASB